Torstein Ellingsen (born 7 August 1966) is a Norwegian drummer and music producer, known from a series of album recordings.

Ellingsen lead his own band, The Sinatra Songbook (from 1999),[2] along with jazz singer Ingar Kristiansen.

He plays in these bands: Prima Vista Social Club, Rubber Soul Quartet and Gigaphonics.

He has also collaborated with musicians like Sigurd Køhn, Georg Reiss, Norbert Susemihl, Halvdan Sivertsen and Øystein Sunde.

Ellingsen has published the norwegian language book Rosinen i pølsa (Kagge, 2005) with Knut Lystad and Rune Semundseth.